Paul Strand
1890 - 1976
'Toadstool and Grasses, Maine'
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted to card, titled, dated, credited and initialed by Hazel Strand, the photographer's widow, and with 'MEH32 in pencil on the reverse, 1928, printed later
image: 9½ by 7⅝ in. (24.1 by 19.4 cm.)
Condition Report
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, 12 October 2000, Sale 7518, Lot 153
Galerie Zur Stockeregg, Zurich
Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, 18 October 2006, Sale 40206, Lot 111
Literature
Paul Strand, A Retrospective Monograph: The Years 1915-1968 (Millerton, 1971), p. 58
John Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1973), p. 97
Nancy Newhall and Paul Strand, Time in New England (Aperture, 1977), p. 196
Paul Strand: Masters of Photography (Aperture, 1987), p. 29
Sarah Greenough, Paul Strand: An American Vision (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1990), p. 55
Peter Barbarie and Amanda N. Bock, Paul Strand: Master of Modern Photography (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2014), pl. 71
Catalogue Note
The present image was chosen to represent Paul Strand's work in John Szarkowski's highly influential book, Looking at Photographs.